Qing Dynasty famous medical doctor Xu Ling tire once said: “the disease of the healing is not healed. Not only the party must be in the disease, although the party in the disease and serve not its method, it is not only no work, but harmful ……” can be seen in the correct taking of drugs, can accelerate the improvement of the condition, the wrong way to take will directly affect the efficacy of the treatment. (1) time to take drugs have learned: tonic drugs: appropriate before meals, can improve the efficacy. Appetizing drugs: it is advisable to take before meals. Elimination of food medicine: it is appropriate to take after meals. Laxatives: fasting or half fasting. Sleeping pills: 1-2 hours before bedtime. Asthma medication: take 2 hours before an asthma attack. Antidiarrheal drugs: give in time, take again on time, stop taking when diarrhea stops. Sweating drugs: it is advisable to take after meals to prevent excessive sweating and cause defecation. Serious illness medicine: give the medicine in time, the medicine can be divided into doses as appropriate. Drugs for promoting the production of body fluid and moisturizing dryness, clearing summer heat and relieving heat: take it at any time. Throat disease medicine: not time to take many times frequently, slowly swallowed. (2) tonics to take the “temperature” problem: tonics in the treatment of general diseases, it is appropriate to use the warm method, that is, tonics at 30 ℃ to 35 ℃ when taking. Pharmacological research has recently found that: when the temperature of the tonic and the temperature around the tongue is similar, the most sensitive feeling, that is to say, at this time to drink the tonic taste the most bitter. And the temperature of the tonic is higher than 38 ℃ or lower than 35 ℃, the taste nerve feeling less sensitive, then the bitter taste will be weakened, less bitter taste, conducive to swallowing. (3) the way to take special drugs: Where the treatment of cold diseases, line blood circulation up to the muscles and bones, belonging to the qi, blood, blood, blood, cool blood, stopping the bleeding of the drug, quench the thirst of the agent, it is appropriate to serve hot. Where the treatment of heat-related diseases, serving heat-clearing and heat-eliminating medicines, astringent and blood-stopping agents, detoxifying agents, should be served cold. Cold medicines for hot diseases should be served warm; hot medicines for cold diseases should be served cold. For the soup should not be served cold after taking will cause gastrointestinal irritation, abdominal pain or vomiting, can be used to rub the tongue with fresh ginger to stop. (4) decoction and medication “amount”: Chinese medicine has “medicine full of intestines” said, that is to say, there is a volume of Chinese medicine, how to correctly grasp the “amount” of medication? Chinese medicine soup are decocted 2 times after the combined liquid, and then according to the clinical needs of subdosing, generally speaking, each time to take 150-200 ml is appropriate, but there are exceptions to the disease. Fever patients serving heat detoxification agent, the liquid can be a little more to help the power of the drug; thirst-quenching drugs, the amount of liquid should also be more, and can be served as tea frequently. Weak, seriously ill people, the amount of medicine should be less. General children within 1 year old with one-fifth of the adult dosage, 1-3 years old with adult dosage of one-quarter; 4-7 years old with adult dosage of one-third; 8-10 years old with adult dosage of one-half; 10 years old and above can use adult dosage. (5) How to control the number of times to take medicine? Generally, the soup is divided into two times a day in the morning and evening, and heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines can be taken 3-4 times a day. Sweating medicines can be added to take 2-3 times, including swallowing medicinal juice can be a small amount of several times. (6) How to take special drugs? ① Antiemetic drugs should be taken cold in small quantities several times to avoid vomiting. Some patients who often take bitter cold medicine, oral medicine is easy to produce nausea and vomiting, generally can drink a small amount of ginger juice, and then serve the medicine, and with a small number of times with the method of drinking to avoid vomiting. ② treatment of episodic disease patients, it is advisable to serve before the attack. Such as anti-malaria drugs must be served 2 hours before the malaria attack, anti-epileptic drugs must be served 3 hours before the attack. (7) how to eat Chinese and Western medicines used in combination? Certain diseases require both Chinese and Western medicines, how to take the medicine at this time? According to long-term clinical observation, Chinese and Western medicines can be applied jointly, there are many diseases are particularly suitable, better efficacy. At this time, it is best to take Western medicine and Chinese medicine time interval of 30 minutes. This not only reduces the possible reaction between the drugs, but also makes the disease effectively treated. (8) It is not easy to take tonic medicine when you have a cold! Cold and flu, especially high fever patients should not take tonic medicine. Because of the external evil into the body to take tonic, there will be a “closed door to keep the enemy” of the evils. (9) Chinese medicine precipitation how to do? Chinese medicine soup sediment is to drink or throw, is determined by the medicine in the soup. Take Huanglian and licorice co-decoction as an example, the combination of the two medicines, Huanglianin and glycyrrhizic acid, is suspended in the liquid as a microscopic granular solid, which makes the liquid turbid, and if this liquid is left to stand, it may precipitate to the bottom of the bowl, forming a muddy paste. If this liquid is left, it may precipitate to the bottom of the bowl and form a mud paste. If the mud paste at the bottom of the bowl is discarded, the efficacy of the medicine will obviously be affected. The correct practice is to stir up the sediment before taking the medicine, or add some water to the remaining muddy sediment and mix it down.